rainy day diversions

I’m back from Vancouver, the septic system is working well, and I could be happily curled up by the fire with a book, except that it’s August, and I’m a bit tired of being pleased…

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Eating in Paris

Macarons at Ladurée, Rue Royale Even on our very first visit to Paris, almost twenty years ago, with four kids in tow, we managed to enjoy some of the wonderful food available, although for the…

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here and there, this and that

Here,when I photographed the yellows and whites in my garden last week, the Romneya Coulteri (California tree poppy) buds were still doing this, beautifully. They’re not at all subtle now, but they are stunning. I’m…

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Portuguese lessons

I’ve told you hardly anything about our time in Portugal, nothing about the time we spent in the Beira, a mainly rural region of mountains, terraced hillsides, garden-covered valleys, and sparkling rivers. We stayed at…

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Happy Anniversary to Me, Prizes for You

Since I first dipped my toes in the blogging waters a year ago, these girls have gone from falling in the fishpond(only one of them, thank goodness!) to helpfully gathering seaweed for my garden this…

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